The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-11-10
PERSONAL PIcKlNos

Bret harte has decided to take up his abode
permanently in suburb of London.
Edwin Booth keeps up his habit of smoking
from one to two dozen cigars per day.
Emperor William has arrived at Berlin
from Baden Baden. He is enjoying good
health.
Charles Dickens says that the pictures of
American life painted by his father have be-
come antiquated
Wayne MacVeagh never talks politics and
invariably excuses himself ON the ground that
he is devoting himself entirely to his law
practice
Mr.. Henry Irving is in favor of municipal
theatres He declares it to be his belief that
well conducted theatre is as necessary as q
free library.
Ex-Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Charles L. Coon is in Europe engaged in
great financial transactions in which millions
are involved.
The king Of Corea furnished his winter
palace with SIS, 900 worth of American chairs,
beds and tables. He also bought an American
steamer for $2S,000.
Col Thomas Porterhouse Ochiltree Is will
ing to confess that he made money recently
in Wall street, but says the amount was not
100000, as reported.
Gen. Lew Wallace, while in Constantinople,
became personal friend of the present sui
tan, and communication betv cen them has
been kept up ever since.
William Walter Phelps is as fond of arts
tic neckties as Gen. Hustled or the late Emery
Storrs, and he finds great delight in strolling
by the haberdashers windows.
The Duke and Duchess of Montrose, accom-
panied by the Dowager Duchess, known for
her devotion to the race course, started for
India at the close of the racing season in Ing
land.
There is no truth in the story that Tolstoi,
the great Russian novelist, is out of his mind
A Russian journalist, who has Just paid him
visit, describes him as perfectly healthy
and perfectly sane
NJ Grevy, president of the French Reptb.
lie, enjoys smoking pipe, and does so when
ever he can without offending decorum, He
is man Of very simple habits, and rises and
retires at an early hour.
John r. Tucker, of Virginia, one of tho
counsel for the condemned Anarchists of
Chicago, is great buttermilk drinker. He
thinks it is the best beverage in the world for
use while making speech.
Henry w. Grady, of The Atlanta Constitu-
ton, is bird fancier. He has had eighteen
pairs Of pigeons shipped him from Utica,
N. Y There are pigeons of all sorts up in
Utica, and some Of the other sort ought to be
shipped too,
Walter Besant's effort to raise 5000, 900 to
build Dickens memorial in London brings
to mind the fact that the great novelist In his
will emphatically disapproved of any such
act ON the part of his admirers. He believed
that his works were sufficient nonument to
his memory.
Mr.. John Jacob Astor's gastric fever is said
to have been brought on by eating apple
dumplings. There is a $1,000 a year chef in
the house, but Mrs. Aston prefers old fash
Toned New England cooking and has it pre-
pared by an old negro woman employed for
that purpose,
Valid Aid the dead King of Oudh, was
poet, whose renown extends from the Hima-
layas to Cape Comorin, for his love songs
have obtained an immense popularity
throughout India. His majesty received a
pension of 100000 a year from the Indian
government, which will be. continued to his
heirs
Chauncey M. Depew arranges his dinner
engagements just the same as a route agent
for theatrical combination maps out his
dates. He has book In which are noted In
one column the day and date, in another It's
acceptance or declination and In the third the
topic he is to talk on. Private Secretary
! Duvol has charge of this diary. He is kept
busy "booking" dates just now.
DR. W. Seward Webb the son-in-law Of
W. II. Vanderbilt and president of the Cen
trails sleeping car service, is large land
holder in Vermont, where he has Just been
indicted for breach of the local driving
laws. He has a two mile patch Of the Lake
Champlain coast below Burlington, and hopes
to establish fashionable colony. He is so
popular there that his Indictment Is surprise.
King Humbert, of Italy, often causes an
noyance and embarrassment by taking a
fancy to any little novelty which he may see
in the hands Of any Of his courtiers. No mat
ter what it is-a cane Of rare wood, Jewel
set in some curious way, or a fantastic watch
his majesty will show such an intense de-
sire to possess it that finally the object Is
| offered him, and it is always replaced by
present Of double or triple its value